[mouse1]

between the 57 states comment and his freudian “muslim faith” slip yesterday, kinda makes you wonder

[Stentor]

Been napping?

[nickcarraway]

There are are a lot of great reasons to criticize Obama, but this is not one of them. Obama is a threat to the U.S. because of his extreme leftism, not because he's a secret Mulsim.

Let's focus on the real issues, instead of trying to act like anti-Obama Olbermans.

[BobbyT]

Sure you laugh now, but once Obama’s ACORN group gets to work, and every terrorist from all 57 Islamist states (plus their pets) votes twice in November, who’ll have the last laugh?

[Tijeras_Slim]

"And 57 divided by 3 is 19!"

[God luvs America]

it’s part of their strategy if they lose in November- they can then whine that “all the votes must be counted” claiming not all 57 states were counted....

[farmer18th]

He probably spent a lot of time with Teresa Heinz that day, and she was showing him the 57 different varieties.

[1rudeboy]

I know about Obama’s 57 States comment, but anything beginning with “From Rush Limbaugh’s radio show . . .” is usually fake.

[waus]

Even ultra-lib Dave Letterman jumped on the Barry Bashing Bandwagon with count the uh’s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEAO0lt4Dw&NR=1

[theBuckwheat]

I'll give him a pass on this gaffe. Being a Senator, I am sure he quite often hears legislative aides making reference to the 57 JURISDICTIONS that make up the United States. The extra entities in the list include the District of Columbia, US Virgin Islands and American Samoa and several others that I cannot recall from memory.

To make a complete list of jurisdictions we would also have to make reference to all the recognized and sovereign tribes of Native Americans, some of which carry out certain quasi-state functions such as issue titles for motor vehicles.

[x]

More likely he was thinking "50 states -- how many haven't I been to?" and got confused.

But say it did come from 57 Islamic states, or Heinz 57 varieties, or Interstate 57 (which runs from Chicago down to Cairo) or Passenger 57 (the Wesley Snipes movie), or Psalm 57, or "57 Channels (and Nothin' On)," or West 57th Street, or 57, the country code for Colombia, what does it possibly matter?

It may be a funny coincidence, but is it really anything more than that?

[MediaMole]

He clearly had meant to say that he had campaigned in 47 states, since he followed up saying that he still had three more states to visit.

It was a stupid gaffe — nothing more.

If Bush had said the same thing, the leftists would have been all over it. Obama continues to have the same types of gaffes that make the left call Bush an idiot.